Bug#918042: WoL does not work on r8169 (regression since 4.18)

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

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On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 07:02:42PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 4.20-1~exp1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I frequently send my desktop PC to sleep (suspend-to-ram) and wake it up
> from remote when I need to access it. To do so, I use a script on a
> banana pi which ends up calling etherwake 54:04:a6:82:21:00. This
> has worked reliably up to the last 4.18 release, including the Debian
> kernel linux-image-4.18.0-3-amd64 version 4.18.20-2.
> 
> In 4.19, this ceased to work and has remained that way up to the kernel
> I am reporting this issue on, linux-image-4.20.0-trunk-amd64 version
> 4.20-1~exp1. I have observed this behavior also on my "own", locally
> built kernels of various 4.19 releases and also 4.20. Sorry, I didn't
> try any Debian 4.19 kernels, I decided to pursue this issue further
> after the regression was also present in 4.20.
> 
> I am prepared to try kernel patches or follow other hints in debugging
> this. I acknowledge that this is most probably an upstream issue, but I
> don't have enough kernel foo to investigate this on an upstream level
> (and frankly, I am afraid of doing a bisect between 4.18 and 4.19).
> 
> Any hints will be appreciated.

Marc, ist this still something you can reproduce with a recent kernel?

Regards,
Salvatore